cloudflare's mx record should set cname or A records

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Published on 2014-06-06T03:43:59Z Indexed on 2014/06/06 9:41 UTC
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The cloudflare offical support said

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168876-My-email-or-mail-stopped-working-What-should-I-do-

But traditionally mx record should not set as cname

http://www.exchangepedia.com/blog/2006/12/should-mx-record-point-to-cname-records.html

But cloudflare has a service called "cname Flattening" is it related for a reason to set cname as mx records?

So should i set cloudflare's mx record as cname ?

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